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- Power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky
- "Guns or Butter" debate - Heavy industry or Consumer goods
- Struggle continues for 3 years
- Stalin was successful - General Secretary (position that allowed him to appoint all the people around him)
- Expels Trotsky from Soviet Union
- Later to be put on trial in abstention for treason
- Hunted down and assassinated in Mexico City in 1940 (ice pick)
- Stalin to follow "Socialism in One Country" slogan
- "Guns or Butter" debate - Heavy industry or Consumer goods
- Struggle continues for 3 years
- Stalin was successful - General Secretary (position that allowed him to appoint all the people around him)
- Expels Trotsky from Soviet Union
- Later to be put on trial in abstention for treason
- Hunted down and assassinated in Mexico City in 1940 (ice pick)
- Stalin to follow "Socialism in One Country" slogan
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summary
After the death of Lenin there was a power struggle to see who would be the new leader. After three years it was decided that Stalin would run the country.